| Customer | Nétive focuses on creating software to support all aspects of recruitment, selection, engagement and management of permanent and temporary workers. |
| Industry | Staffing |
| Number of Salesforce users | 50 |
| QA team size | 3 |
| Scope of systems tested with Provar | Salesforce customized by Nétive with Force.com components based on Visualforce, Lightning and Community |
| Provar tests | 104 |
Customer
Nétive delivers the market-leading Vendor Management System (VMS) platform within the Netherlands and currently serves more than 200 workforce management programs across 10 countries.
Through an agile and component-based multi-tenant architecture, Nétive combines Vendor Management (VMS), Applicant Tracking (ATS), Statement of Work (SoW), and Freelancer Management (FMS) into one truly integrated solution, hosted within Salesforce.
In addition, Nétive enables a compliant and ISO27001 accredited end-to-end management of Workforce Management programmes, in a commercially, strategically and operationally efficient way. With a dedicated EMEA presence in the Netherlands, Belgium and the U.K., Nétive brings nearly 20 years of experience within contingent workforce management.
Technology
Netive uses highly customized components made with Force.com and based on Visualforce, Lightning and Community. Provar is uniquely suited to testing both end-to-end and component-specific test cases.
Challenge
manual regression testing and a custom-built testing solution slowed release schedules
As a leading Salesforce Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner that provides cloud-based workforce management solutions that companies leverage on across the globe, Nétive has developed an aggressive release schedule designed to deliver enhanced functionality and help their customers succeed.
Initially, Nétive relied on manual testing as part of their regression testing process. Like many before them, the inability to scale manual testing pushed them to build a custom test automation tool. The challenges associated with maintaining a custom tool that kept pace with Salesforce releases led them to research test automation built specifically for Salesforce.
Before Provar, each release cycle required the collaborative effort of three full-time testers and an additional three developers over the course of 5 days.
Solution
From the very beginning of using Provar, Nétive added the creation of Provar tests as a required deliverable during the development process, and the work was not considered complete without them. As a result, each new release is delivered with up-to-date automated tests built with Provar.
With over 70 test cases supported with Provar automated tests, Nétive is able to run tests on a daily basis concurrently with development processes using Atlassian’s Bamboo continuous integration solution.
Result
It was draining for both testers and development teams alike to have a growing manual regression set from one release to the next. By including Provar in the development process from the very beginning, testing and quality assurance have kept pace with development. Even functionality that was already in place before implementing Provar is included as stories in the sprint so that it will be seamlessly covered in future releases.
Surprise Win
“We are working in a lot of different environments with different users. With Provar it is easy to switch between the environments. Also, the integration with Git makes it easy to switch branches and commit changes. And the object viewer is very powerful. You can select a record object and easily navigate to it, but it’s also very simple to check if the record is created the correct way.”
The “Salesforce Test integration Package” for analysis and reporting has given us a lot of insights into test outcomes and performance and which test cases are brittle.
